125 Years Ago

Herald of August 26, 1897

The farmer is still smiling broader smiles. Wheat climbing upward, the cornfields waving their flattering prospects into this face. On the whole he is the happiest man in all the realm.

Among the sad and lonely lords of creation is our tonsorial artist Charles Vandereau, who’s better half is off to Chambersburg. Charlie looks sort o’ sombre and sad.

We were in the Smith reunion, and oh, the Smiths! We got in only by the skin of our teeth when they learned that our great-grandfather’s grandmothers’ father’s uncle was married to a Smith’s grandfather’s aunt. We got in,...